Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Houston ordinance allowing men masquerading as women to use the girls room was soundly defeated...

Houston has a gay mayor and is a pretty liberal democrat town, but this was a bridge too far for even them. Hillary Clinton endorsed the ordinance.

The Houston Equal Rights Ordinance was rejected after a nearly
18-month battle that spawned rallies, legal fights and accusations of
both religious intolerance and demonization of the lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgender community.
Supporters of the ordinance had said it would have offered increased
protections for gay and transgender people, as well as protections
against discrimination based on sex, race, age, religion and other
categories.
Opponents of the ordinance, including a coalition of conservative
pastors, said it infringed on their religious beliefs regarding
homosexuality. But in the months leading up to Tuesday's vote, opponents
focused their campaign on highlighting one part of the ordinance
related to the use of public bathrooms by transgender men and women that
opponents alleged would open the door for sexual predators to go into
women's restrooms.
Democratic Houston Mayor Annise Parker, who is gay, and other
supporters of the ordinance had called this "bathroom ordinance"
strategy highly misleading and a scare tactic.